Let’s say I want to calculate the velocity of a free falling body in vacuum. I want to do this in dependence of gravitational constant and time or distance and time with a fixed gravitational constant. That would be either one of velocity(g, t) = g*t velocity(d, t) = 9.81*sqrt(2*d/9.81) If I do t…

As a side note, sqrt(2*d/9.81) is the time a free falling body takes to travel a distance d. I’m afraid you have to explicitly access the field of your types where you store the value velocity(dist::Distance, t) = dist.d / t if you want to avoid overloading the needed methods. Which can be automa…

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Eben60 September 22, 2023, 11:08am 6

I’m not sure I exactly understood you needs, but did you check DynamicQuantities.jl ?

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